Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in
Villefranche-sur-Saône
Villefranche-sur-Saône (, ; frp, Velafranche) is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.
It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the river Saône, and is around north of Lyon. The inhabitants of the town are called ''Caladois''.
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,
France
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) is a French Research Engineer and
computer programmer best known for authoring the
planetarium software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
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Stellarium, a
free,
open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in
real time.
GAIA People
from Research & Scientific Support Department - European Space Agency
He previously worked as a Research Engineer at the Paris Astronomical Observatory for the satellite Gaia of European Space Agency on a CNES-funded position for the On-board Detection and the Radial Velocity Spectrometer working groups. He worked in ESO on a plugin for Stellarium, called VirGO, from April 2008 to 2010.
Chéreau wrote the first version of the Gaia on-board detection algorithm. He worked on the definition of the Spectro sky mappers and was in charge of the development of the algorithms for these instruments.
Education
After graduating from Lycée du Val de Saône, Trévoux in Science with majors in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Industrial Technology, he enrolled in INSA
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History
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, the French engineering university at Lyon in France. Later he studied his final year as an exchange student in the Tampere University of Technology
Tampere University of Technology (TUT) ( fi, Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto (TTY)) was Finland's second-largest university in engineering sciences. The university was located in Hervanta, a suburb of Tampere. It was merged with the University o ...
, Finland. Chéreau achieved his master's degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) in Computer Science at the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, France.
Personal projects
Since summer 2000, Chéreau is working on the free, open source astronomy software Stellarium in C++/OpenGL during his spare time.
He also programmed "The Biotes" an experimental artificial life program (in C++) which experiments with neural networks and evolution algorithms.
Interests
Chéreau's interest in observations, calculations and astronomy helped in the creation of Stellarium.
References
External links
Stellarium
Official website for Stellarium.
ESO
European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.
VirGO
VirGO, a plugin for Stellarium.
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1980 births
Living people
People from Villefranche-sur-Saône
French computer programmers